tally

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A reckoning, score, or amount.
• noun A record of a reckoning, score, or amount.
• noun The act of scoring a point or goal in a game or contest.
• noun A stick on which notches are made to keep a count or score.
• noun A stick on which notches were formerly made to keep a record of amounts paid or owed.
• noun A mark used in recording a number of acts or objects, most often in series of five, consisting of four vertical lines canceled diagonally or horizontally by a fifth line.
• noun A label, ticket, or piece of metal or wood used for identification or classification, especially in gardens and greenhouses.
• noun Nautical A metal plate attached to a ship's machinery and bearing instructions for its use.
• noun Archaic Something that is very similar or corresponds to something else; a double or counterpart.
• intransitive verb To reckon or count. Often used with up.
• intransitive verb To make a record of (an amount, for example).
• intransitive verb To score (a point or goal) in a game or contest.
• intransitive verb To label, as with a ticket, for identification or classification.
• intransitive verb To be alike; correspond or agree.
• intransitive verb To keep a record, as of a score in a game.
• intransitive verb To score a point or goal in a game or contest.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To mark or record on a tally; score; register.
• To reckon; count; sum: with up.
• To score with corresponding notches; hence, to cause to conform; suit; adapt; match.
• To parallel; do or return in kind.
• Nautical, to put aft, as the sheets or lower corners of the mainsail and foresail.
• To correspond, as one part of a tally to the other; conform; agree.
• In basset, faro, etc., to act as banker.
• noun Same as tally-ho.
• noun An Italian: as, the Tallies are working on the railroad. Dialect Notes, II. vi.
• Same as tally-ho.
• In a tall manner.
• Stoutly; boldly.
• noun A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut to mark numbers, as in keeping an account or giving a receipt; loosely, anything on which a score or an account is kept.
• noun A score kept upon a notched stick or by other means; a reckoning; an account; a record as of debit and credit or of the score in a game.
• noun A mark made to register a certain number of objects; one of a series of consecutive marks by which a number of objects are recorded or checked; also, a number as thus recorded; a number serving as a unit of computation.
• noun A ticket or label of wood, metal, or the like used as a means of identification; specifically, in horticulture, such a ticket bearing either a number referring to a catalogue, or the name of the plant with which it is connected.
• noun By extension, anything corresponding to another as duplicate or counterpart.
• noun An abbreviation of tally-shop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adverb obsolete Stoutly; with spirit.
• noun Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
• noun Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
• noun One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
• noun A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally.
• noun A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
• noun a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade.
• noun [Obs.] to act in correspondence, or alike.
• transitive verb To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
• transitive verb (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to dovetail together.
• intransitive verb To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
• intransitive verb To make a tally; to score.